BOT's top 100 black and white films the countdown is done

[Tower]

 

50

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Points: 55

Number of lists: 7

Year: 1962

Director: John Ford 

First place votes: 0

Top 5 (2-5): 0

Top 10 (6-10): 0

Average position: 49.6

 

Two James Stewart films in a row, @chasmmi is going to love this.

Edited July 27, 2019 by Tower

[Tower]

And since we reached 50, it's time for a recap of what we have had so far:

 

rank	Film	Points	Number Of Lists	Average position
50	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	55	7	49.6
51	Anatomy Of A Murder	55	3	23.7
52	Fail-Safe	55	2	28.5
53	The Elephant Man	54.5	7	42.4
54	Yojimbo	54	6	49.0
55	Frankenstein	54	5	24.4
56	Godzilla	51.5	6	30.7
57	The Innocents	51	4	40.0
58	Sherlock Jr.	50	3	17.7
59	White Heat	49	3	29.0
60	8 1/2	48	6	46.5
61	Brief Encounter	48	5	40.6
62	To Be Or Not To Be	48	5	44.6
63	High Noon	47	6	42.3
64	The Great Dictator	46	6	45.8
65	All Quiet On The Western Front	46	5	39.4
66	Clerks	45.5	5	39.0
67	High And Low	45	3	22.7
68	Random Harvest	45	2	9.0
69	House On Haunted Hill	43	4	48.3
70	Diabolique	42	6	48.3
71	Roma	42	4	16.3
72	Mad Max: Fury Road (Black and Chrome)	42	1	2.0
73	The Haunting	41	3	26.3
74	The Big Sleep	40.5	7	56.1
75	M	40	7	54.6
76	Shadow Of A Doubt	40	5	51.2
77	The Grand Illusion	40	5	51.6
78	Gaslight	39	4	42.8
79	Ace In The Hole	39	4	51.3
80	Stalag 17	38	4	43.0
81	Seven Days In May	38	3	28.3
82	One, Two, Three	38	3	37.0
83	The Seventh Seal	37.5	5	39.6
84	Harvey	37	2	22.5
85	The Gold Rush	36.5	5	49.4
86	Man With A Movie Camera	36	4	42.5
87	Top Hat	36	4	44.0
88	Eraserhead	36	4	47.0
89	A Hard Days Night	36	3	36.0
90	Sunrise	36	3	37.3
91	Freaks	35.5	4	35.8
92	Persona	35	3	30.3
93	The Hidden Fortress	34	5	49.6
94	Dracula	33	4	32.8
95	Battleship Potemkin	33	4	35.3
96	The Hustler	32	4	44.0
97	Los Olvidados (The Young And The Damned)	32	2	19.0
98	Ida	32	2	23.5
99	Good Night, And Good Luck	31	5	44.6
100	The Wolf Man	31	4	40.3

[Tower]

 

49

Harakiri

Points: 64

Number of lists: 3

Year: 1962

Director: Masaki Kobayashi

First place votes: 0

Top 5 (2-5): 1

Top 10 (6-10): 0

Average position: 20.7

 

Not the most well known film on the list, but those that saw it loved it. Just 3 people voting for this managed to get it into the top half of the list, something that won't happen again.

[Tower]

 

48

Bride Of Frankenstein

Points: 64

Number of lists: 6

Year: 1935

Director: James Whale

First place votes: 0

Top 5 (2-5): 0

Top 10 (6-10): 0

Average position: 28.8

 

The sequel surpasses the original, managing to place on one more list.

[Jake Gittes]

Harakiri is the kind of movie you wish you could just sit the whole world down in front of and press play. It's staggeringly good.

[cannastop]

@Tower

After the countdown is over, can we ask about individual movies that didn't make it?

[Tower]

 

47

Strangers On A Train

Points: 66

Number of lists: 6

Year: 1951

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

First place votes: 0

Top 5 (2-5): 1

Top 10 (6-10): 0

Average position: 42.3

 

Finally we get our second Hitchcock. I feel like This film falls apart at the end, but until then it's really good, with an interesting villain.

Edited July 27, 2019 by Tower

[Tower]

11 minutes ago, cannastop said:

@Tower

After the countdown is over, can we ask about individual movies that didn't make it?

After the countdown is over I will post the full list of 360.

[cannastop]

2 minutes ago, Tower said:

After the countdown is over I will post the full list of 360.

Oh cool thank you very much.

[Tower]

 

46

King Kong

Points: 67

Number of lists: 8

Year: 1933

Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack

First place votes: 0

Top 5 (2-5): 0

Top 10 (6-10): 0

Average position: 44.3

 

The original film which spawned sequels and remakes that continue to this day. clearly still well known judging by this being our first entry to get 8 separate votes.

Edited July 27, 2019 by Tower

[cannastop]

Wow, King Kong is a lot lower than I would have thought.

[Tower]

 

45

Only The Angels Have Wings

Points: 68

Number of lists: 4

Year: 1939

Director: Howard Hawks

First place votes: 1

Top 5 (2-5): 0

Top 10 (6-10): 0

Average position: 43.8

 

Only placed on half as many lists as King Kong, this film manages to catapult itself ahead mostly with the help of a first place vote.

[Tower]

 

44

City Lights

Points: 68

Number of lists: 6

Year: 1931

Director: Charlie Chaplin

First place votes: 0

Top 5 (2-5): 0

Top 10 (6-10): 0

Average position: 33.7

 

Chaplin's third entry, tying him Wilder and Kurosawa for the lead amongst directors.

[baumer]

Wow! Reading the list of films that have been listed so far, I'm coming to realize I really need to see more films made before 1960.

[Tower]

 

43

A Night At The Opera

Points: 69

Number of lists: 7

Year: 1935

Director: Sam Wood

First place votes: 0

Top 5 (2-5): 1

Top 10 (6-10): 0

Average position: 49.7

 

The Marx brothers show up for the first time. I haven't seen this one but I did see a different Marx film, and their style really isn't my taste. Clearly though plenty of people still like this kind of thing.

Edited July 27, 2019 by Tower

[Jake Gittes]

Only Angels Have Wings has just about everything I could want from a movie. I'd happily watch it once a week. Maybe the greatest screenplay ever written. If an exotic locale-set romantic hangout adventure about a community of stoic but likable professionals sounds any good to you you owe it to yourself to check this out. 

Edited July 28, 2019 by Jake Gittes

[Fancyarcher]

What I love most about the Marx Brothers is their anarchic, and total chaotic nature, they fit into any scenario, and you can see the "joyfulness" on screen, anytime they show-up to cause havoc. Duck Soup is the better film, but I think that sort of "chaos", was never better show on screen, then at A Night at The Opera, especially in the stateroom sequence. Groucho's remark "Is it my imagination, or is it getting crowded here in here", never fails to put a smile on me. 

 

 

Edited July 28, 2019 by Fancyarcher

[Tower]

 

42

The General

Points: 74.5

Number of lists: 7

Year: 1926

Director: Buster Keaton

First place votes: 0

Top 5 (2-5): 0

Top 10 (6-10): 1

Average position: 31.4

 

Buster Keaton returns to this list, but this time the film was on more than twice as many lists as Sherlock Jr, but had a lower average placing instead, possibly indicating that it is better known but not as liked.

[Tower]

 

41

A Streetcar Named Desire

Points: 77.5

Number of lists: 7

Year: 1951

Director: Elia Kazan

First place votes: 0

Top 5 (2-5): 0

Top 10 (6-10): 1

Average position: 31.3

 

I saw this one preparing for this list, and this was very good, albeit quite disturbing by the end. It was doing quite a bit better early on in the list, but as more votes came in it cooled off.

[Tower]

 

40

The Manchurian Candidate

Points: 78

Number of lists: 5

Year: 1962

Director: John Frankenheimer

First place votes: 1

Top 5 (2-5): 0

Top 10 (6-10): 1

Average position: 35

 

John Frankenheimer returns to this list with his second political thriller about the government being taken over by a nefarious group.